Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend crashes while testing a new plane, and Waldo is permanently grounded for buzzing the crowd that gawks at the man's death by fire. In the end there is nothing left for Waldo but the ultimate commercialization of his love for his craft: stunt-flying in a Hollywood war movie. There, ironically, he finally gets his chance to fly against Kessler, and, by turning a fake dogfight into the real thing, to pass into legend himself...
...school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most powerful roles portrayed deeply troubled or doomed women, such as the dipsomaniac in I'll Cry Tomorrow and the bar girl in I Want to Live...
...hadn't been back to work since. Instead, he padded around the house in his bathrobe and a pair of worn argyle socks each day, getting dressed on Thursdays to pick up his unemployment check. He watched people winning thousands of dollars on "The $10,000 Pyramid" and "Hollywood Squares," rearranged the living room furniture with his wife a few times, and generally would have been more relaxed than he ever imagined he could be, had he known where his meals would be coming from a few months hence...
When Mom found out about Sonny, she made Cher move into a Hollywood girls' residence, but absence finally made his heart grow fonder. They took up housekeeping again-nonplatonically. "When I met her she was 16 and a waif," says Sonny. "On the one hand, she was a very mature kid. She had dealt with life and men on an adult level-she skipped the teen-age stage. But on the other, she was also a very naive little girl...
Subliminally, it all reminds one of those '30s and '40s movies in which Hollywood tried to convey its impression of what a Broadway musical was like. Sadly, Goodtime Charley is not what a good Broadway musical is now like. ∙T.E.K...